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How did you feel when he died?
relieved because i gained his spiritual powers
i feelt bad
>>7882714
So we're in a Highlander type situation?
Hello lit! I just finished reading this novel and I absolutely liked it even though is way harder than the preivous two.
Does anyone else see it as a personal experience of Samuel dealing with death and fear of death and/or nothingness? Is true thar Beckett was pretty far away from death when he wrote it but it reads that way. Do you think it is auto biographical?
The other thing I loved was Samuel's genius for visual situations and impossible situations/movements. Like when he images his character as unwinding trough the world and then collapsing in an...
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>>7882491
>Samuel
>>7882616
>Beckett
He ain't your buddy, Anon. He is Beckett for you.
And I doubt that it is autobiographical as such. Sure, Beckett conveys his thoughts and feelings on the subject through the Unnamable, but he certainly isn't the Unnamable, nor experienced what he did.
Kind of unrelated, but hve you read any of his plays? What was your favorite? Mine is Endgame. I think it is a better, more thought-out and well-rounded play than Godot.
What the fuck? Was Tolstoy retarded? The "debates" between Levin and Sergei Ivanovich, where you're clearly supposed to think Levin's right, are insane.
>Hurr Russia doesn't need medicine because I don't believe in doctors
>Hurr Russians don't need education because serfs who can read are lazy
>Hurr I don't need a fair jury because I won't commit a crime
It's not a very good book, don't worry about it too much.
I'm currently reading it
Levin a cute
'Death'
Why only Shakespeare makes me "feel"?
I nearly cried with Nabokov, and Bartol made me think, but our friend William gives life and value to the words, regardless of whether they are mundane or transcendental.
>>7882000
so tfw no feel?(except in shakespeare)
>>7882000
because you're a Romantic faggot
>>7882008
>faggot
>2016
I honestly don't get why so many authors, philosophers, you name it, are so jubelant about shit like "ego death", or get excited about the fact that subjectivity is an illusion, like some post-structuralists do.
I don't even agree with that, but even if it is so, it is a terrifying prospect and I cannot even perceive it as a release.
Why do people feel such a release from being an "I"? Or even wish to extinguish that idea? If anything being an "I" is a release from the tyranny of the 'greater whole'.
>>7881878
you're spooked
It's a continuation of the eastern/schopenhauer take
the ego though is the newer concept
>>7881878
Hard to do magick without suppressing the ego.
Are any of you familiar with the Inheritance series of books?
I am thinking of a passage describing why there must be a balance between spellcasters and soldiers in an army.
I searched the books for keywords, but came up empty.
lmao, are you in kindergarten?
read actual literature
>>7881327
I read the books many years ago, but the memory just recently resurfaced.
>>7881327
>I only read mature literature for mature people like myself
>tips ledora
how do i get back to reading? i used to be a big reader
for you
Start with the rainbow and then see where youre at afterwards
>>7880295
god dammit
I'm fucking rolling
Hey, /lit
I want to read the Divine Comedy, but I am not yet sure of its difficulty. I don't often have time to really sit down and have a good read, so I mostly just read for about an hour a day in the bus, a bit distracted. So, is Dante's too difficult of a read to start it in these conditions?
>>7880276
Normally I'd say if you can focus there, doesn't matter where you read.
But you already said you get distracted there. So I'd not read anything long or complex. And this is both.
Tried earpluggs or earmuffs? Might help if it's the noise that's distracting you, like it is in my case.
Divine Comedy is no especially hard read. A lot of the historical references are lost on the modern reader, but the main narrative and thematic concerns should be easy to follow.
The difficulty of the actual writing I suppose depends on your translation, but is generally pretty clear in verse.
>>7880276
Start with the Greeks. Really. Too many references to appreciate the work. I read it and wasn't so impressed because I didn't understand who was who and what was what.
At the very least Metamorphoses - Ovid
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>This is what western society is turning into
Wake me up /lit/
IM ETHAN BRADBERRY
>>7880242
Okay.
>>7880242
Duck off back to YouTube cancer man
List your favorite words in the English language. Be gay nerds and fight over them like sports teams. Fuck everyone who likes "aloof."
Objective best:
Language, magic, ice, icicle, temptress, butterfly, lava, sycophant, cognition, agony, hag, renaissance, logic, memory, A E S T H E T I C, talon, marsh, ennui, hillock, lolipop, murder, evil, nigger
>nigger
Classy.
I've always liked "collonade" and "hermitage". Not sure why, something to do with the combination of sounds.
circumnavigate and nadir are pretty good
>>7879464
Dreadnought.
what does /lit/ think of pic related and c.s. lewis in general?
>>7879421
He's a good author as introduction to literature and theology, but I don't think of him as a writer for serious literature or philosophy.
Used to like him a lot more obviously
>>7879421
The Screwtape Letters is great, everything else is trash.
screwtape letters is okay, but I liked his nonfiction better
imo the allegory of love and the discarded image are his best
What is the saddest book you ever read /lit/?
My diary tbqh
never let me go
Bible
>poem has a traditional rhyme scheme
Free form is for gay boys with no talent who want to express their "feelings"
I cadence in Latin, no rhyme scheme.
>poem is just the ramblings of an ironic faggot
/lit/ humo(u)r please
BUMP I WANNA LAUGHS
mira has now published 2 books. discussion time. she is being heralded as the voice of our generation. I don't agree with this. let's summon her through her instagram and get her to join the discussion.
please stop these threads are boring
Is it true she got choked out by Sam Hyde?
>>7873188
who's Sam hyde
